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What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane.

Very interesting building never built.

http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/index_e.htm?

Microsoft drops a brick on resellers

Stone the crows

By Adamson Rust: Wednesday 03 May 2006, 15:07
RESELLERS have received a missive from Microsoft lovingly gift-wrapped by Volish gnomes.

We don’t know how much postage it cost Microsoft or which work force was used to scour the beautiful English countryside for the contents of the package.

But after all these efforts, it’s pretty clear that the message is in the medium. µ

What ever works I guess?

CTV.ca | T.O. commuters told Stephen Harper ‘eats babies’
T.O. commuters told Stephen Harper ‘eats babies’

Bemused Toronto commuters were repeatedly informed that “Stephen Harper eats babies” after a hacker tampered with advertising signs on city trains.

The scrolling electronic signs that usually carry transit updates and advertisements on Toronto’s westbound Lakeshore GO Transit trains carried the messages Thursday, Friday and Monday after the hacker used a remote-control device to re-program the wording and mock the prime minister.

The ingenious hacker made sure that suburban commuters in at least five different cars continued to get his or her subliminal message.

Commuter Gerry Nicholls said he thought he was hallucinating as he relaxed in his seat for the 35-minute GO train ride between Toronto and his Oakville home.

Every three seconds, the scrolling electronic sign read: “Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies,” Nicholls told the Toronto Star.

I am not going tp say the obvious…

globeandmail.com : Iqaluit to become a hotspot

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Canada’s coldest capital could be the first to get blanketed in hotspots.
Iqaluit’s small size means one hotspot — a free wireless Internet access point — covers nearly all of the community. A two-man computer networking shop that services businesses in the Nunavut capital of 7,000 has managed to cover the downtown core with just one hotspot perched atop the tallest building — an eight-storey high-rise apartment.

ColdSpot more like it, I could almost live there now :)

The German site Podcastlogo.com recently held a contest to see who could come up with the best design for a podcast logo. The winner is Peter Marquardt and this is his creation:

Here’s some advice.. don’t steal a laptop.

I bet you can lease for $10000 over 60 months…. Just alittle out of my price range…

The world’s 10 most expensive automobiles, which you can see in the slide show that follows this piece, include such dreams-come-true as a street-legal, 10-cylinder Porsche race car (the Carrera GT) and cars with over 1,000 hp each.

#1. Bugatti Veyron 16.4 (slide 1 of 2)
Country of Origin: France
Price: €1,000,000($1,192,057)
With its notorious production delays finally over, Bugatti’s Veyron is now on sale in Europe–and the company wants to bring it to the U.S.

Microsoft put together a humorous video poking fun of themselves about how they might re-design the iPod packaging.

This is what everyone should have!

We know there are plenty of “secure” flash drives out there, but face it: if someone is really determined to get at your data, they’ll probably figure out a way. That’s where Kingston’s Data Traveler Elite Privacy Edition comes in. The 4GB flash drive encrypts all data with 128-bit AES, and then adds an extra layer of security: a self destruct feature. If anyone tries to use a brute-force attack to guess your password, the drive will automatically erase itself after 25 wrong guesses. Of course, if you have a really easy password, and a data thief can figure it out in under 25 guesses, you’re out of luck. For the rest of us, this could be a good solution for keeping on-the-go info out of the wrong hands.

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